Stawell Progress Association Members 1953 beside Gold Memorial monument to the discovery of gold at Pleasant Creek.stawell

Dorothy Brumby – President Stawell Historical Society 2015 on steps of old Pleasant Creek Court House stawell portrait

Pleasant Creek Hospital and Benevolent Asylum. Stawell Hospital First Permanent Building Incorporated 1897. Nurses seated on lawn.stawell hospital medical

Pleasant Creek Hospital Doctors. Nurses & Committee on front steps of hospital on the occasion of unveiling the Honour Roll 1917-1918stawell

Pleasant Creek. Stawell Hospital Portraits Mr. Chas Playford First Secretary. Mr. Martin Thornfeldt and family First Dispenser.stawell hospital medical

Pleasant Creek Courthouse Longfield Street with wooden kitchen extension when being used as a mounted constables quarters. Possibly 1900.stawell government

Pleasant Creek Hospital 1926 Presentation of bed by Stawell Technical School made by mothers club Primary School 502 of bed.stawell education medical

Opening of Stawell Historical Society Inc at Pleasant Creek Courthouse. 1981. Mrs Merril Bowers and John Muller at handover of keys.stawell

Pleasant Creek. Stawell Hospital Portraits. Dr R. Colquhoun First Resident Doctor. Mr Richard Codd First Civilian President.stawell hospital medical

On left is Pleasant Creek Cross Reef Mine No1 Shaft, (1300 feet deep) and on right is No2 Shaft (1200 feet deep)Holtermann Black and White photographs of Stawell. April 1874. Poppet Head and winding house of Mine with town in background. Workers can be seen in centre of photo and standing on poppet head and handling ore trolleys on tramway.mining

Nathaniel Swan an early editor of Pleasant Creek News & Maynard Ord journalist share broker who wrote early history of Stawellstawell

Pleasant Creek Hospital. Part of a collection of Photographs by Mr. O.G. Armstrong as commissioned by the Shire of Stawell for the Inter-colonial and Paris Exhibition in Melbourne in 1866. Due to a public outcry for medical services on the goldfield a public meeting was held in the Olympic Theatre at Deep Lead on the 7th of August 1858. It appointed a 50 man committee to establish a hospital at Pleasant Creek. A temporary Tent structure was soon erected at Doctors Hill, situated midway between Deep Lead and Commercial Street Pleasant Creek, just South of the later Western Highway. The site is now marked by a commemorative stone. Within two months the committee had collected £600 in subscriptions, a government Grant for £2500 and acquired 10 acres of land. The foundation stone of the hospital building was laid on 21st December 1860 and the building completed and occupied by 21st June 1861. In the 1930’s the hospital moved to the centre of Stawell in Sloane Street and the buildings then taken over by the Pleasant Creek Training Centre. Brick hospital building with two ward wings and central front door. Man standing on steps.stawell health

Pastoral runs in the Stawell area were selected in the 1840s, but it was the gold found by a shepherd in the district in May 1853 that provided the real reason for the foundation of a township. By August 1854, 5,000 people were seeking their fortune at the Pleasant Creek goldfield. By 1857 the fabulously rich deep alluvial leads to Commercial Street and Deep Lead had been discovered and rushes of eager gold seekers brought 20,000 people to the fields.Black and white photograph of the central Victorian town of Stawell (formerly known as Pleasant Creek). .stawell, pleasant creek

Pleasant Creek Cemetery. Part of a collection of Photographs by Mr. O.G. Armstrong as commissioned by the Shire of Stawell for the Inter-colonial and Paris Exhibition in Melbourne in 1866. The site of the Pleasant Creek Cemetery was proclaimed on October the 14th, 1861. Prior to that, a cemetery existed on ‘One Tree Hill’ where burials were made as early as 1854. A memorial is located on the site of the One Tree Hill Cemetery, corner of Griffith and Leslie streets, Stawell West. stawell

Staff in front of Stawell Pleasant Creek News Newspaper Office 191 Main Street Stawell. NE Corner of Main Street and Layzell Street stawell

Pleasant Creek Hospital Doctors Nurses and committee members sitting at afternoon tea tables on front patio. 1918 after unveiling of Honour Rollstawell

Building Stawell Wheat Site situated beside the main rail line behind the Pleasant Creek Training Centre and Woollen Mills. Demolished 1945-1946stawell

Telegraph Office Pleasant Creek Stawell. Part of a collection of Photographs by Mr. O.G. Armstrong as commissioned by the Shire of Stawell for the Inter-colonial and Paris Exhibition in Melbourne in 1866. The first post was office was erected at Commercial Street, Pleasant Creek in the goldfields, in June 1858, by J Harding and was a portable one. In October 1860 the first permanent Telegraph Office was erected by Cormick and Irvine for £329. In the same month the Post Office was removed from Commercial St in the Goldfields to the rear of the Telegraph office in Stawell. In February 1862 Edmond Johnson was appointed manager of Electrical Telegraph, Collector of Imposts and acting Postmaster. This building was later used as a private dwelling. It is situated in Lesley Street at the rear of the Pleasant Creek Courthouse although the right-hand wing has been removed. stawell

Staff and Pleasant Creek 502 Common School. Part of a collection of Photographs by Mr. O.G. Armstrong as commissioned by the Shire of Stawell for the Inter-colonial and Paris Exhibition in Melbourne in 1866. The education of children in the early years was at the hands of various denominations and attendance was not compulsory. So it was at Pleasant Creek, where prior to 1858, no real effort had been made by any of the nominations to establish schools. In 1864 the denominational system was abolished and school became known as the ‘common school’, such as pictured. stawell education

Group of Gentlemen beside the Peace Memorial situated on Halls Gap Road built 1919 at site of old Treasury Building Commercial Street Pleasant Creek. C1922stawell

Interior main hall of Pleasant Creek Court House. Stawell Historical Society member Betty Collins seated and Past President Margaret Mason standing with banner. stawell

Group of Gentlemen beside the Peace Memorial situated on Halls Gap Road built 1919 at site of old Treasury Building Commercial Street Pleasant Creek. C1922stawell

Interior of Pleasant Creek Court House in Parlour. Stawell Historical Society President Margaret Mason Seated at the Piano. Treasurer Mari Van Leeuwen seated with doll. 1989stawell

Interior of Pleasant Creek Court House in Parlour. Stawell Historical Society President Margaret Mason Seated in front of the Piano. Treasurer Mari Van Leeuwen with doll. 1989stawell

Literary Institute at Pleasant Creek, Stawell West. Built in 1868 and classified as part of a group by National Trust buildings. Worksheet notes state the building is one of the earliest known cavity wall buildings.Early black & white photograph of the two story Literary Institute built in 1868. Man, or boy standing on footpath near stone fence.stawell

Pleasant Creek Hospital and Benevolent Asylum. Stawell Hospital First Permanent Building Semco Series Postcard. Writing on back short note to Mrs Irvine of Great Western from Jinnie Kinsellastawell hospital medical

Stawell Turf Club a Silver Cup won at Pleasant Creek race club meeting held at Stawell race course 1878. Valued 40 pounds. Won by Wm McClinock Esq riding his own horse "Salisbury"stawell sport